The Pregnancy Project: Stereotyping In High School
The Pregnancy Project is about a high school senior who fakes being pregnant to show here school and community about stereotyping in her school and community. Gaby Rodriguez is an honors student on tract to be valedictorian. Every senior has to pick a project to study for their senior project. Gaby chooses Stereotyping for her projects. Not only is she going to be researching it she is going to be living it. Gaby is going to fake being pregnant and hide it from her family and friends. Gaby is only telling her boyfriend, mom, a few teachers, and friends about her not being really pregnant. They are going to write down everything they hear people saying about Gaby and once a week they are going to meet and tell her what everyone has been saying
about her. Good or bad they will write down everything they hear. People Gaby didn’t even know were saying things about her. Like that her boyfriend isn’t the baby’s father. That she was bound to get pregnant because both her mom and older sister were teen parents. Or even because that she is Latino. Gaby’s uncle was very upset when he heard his niece was pregnant. Even getting violent with him and trying to fight him. Her boyfriend’s parents said, now that she’s pregnant you’re stuck with her for life. No one in either of their families family’s was happy or supportive about them being pregnant. Eventually Gaby’s uncle came around, buying Gaby a gift for the baby and apologized for the way he acted. After 6 months of hiding being pregnant Gaby gives a speech on what her project was on. She explains what her project was on. Saying that since she announced that she was pregnant everyone has been whispering and talking behind her back. Gaby reads off some of what teachers have, like they wasted their time writing a letter of recommendation for colleage because now that she’s pregnant, she’ll never go. After she begins to take off her fake stomach, and says I’m not pregnant that you all judge me because I’m Latino or that I come from a teen mom. No one should stereotype someone based on their background or ethnicity.
about her. Good or bad they will write down everything they hear. People Gaby didn’t even know were saying things about her. Like that her boyfriend isn’t the baby’s father. That she was bound to get pregnant because both her mom and older sister were teen parents. Or even because that she is Latino. Gaby’s uncle was very upset when he heard his niece was pregnant. Even getting violent with him and trying to fight him. Her boyfriend’s parents said, now that she’s pregnant you’re stuck with her for life. No one in either of their families family’s was happy or supportive about them being pregnant. Eventually Gaby’s uncle came around, buying Gaby a gift for the baby and apologized for the way he acted. After 6 months of hiding being pregnant Gaby gives a speech on what her project was on. She explains what her project was on. Saying that since she announced that she was pregnant everyone has been whispering and talking behind her back. Gaby reads off some of what teachers have, like they wasted their time writing a letter of recommendation for colleage because now that she’s pregnant, she’ll never go. After she begins to take off her fake stomach, and says I’m not pregnant that you all judge me because I’m Latino or that I come from a teen mom. No one should stereotype someone based on their background or ethnicity.